Or why do they need to change the appearance from the original version of the page at all? It just looks unaesthetic

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    The original is often just as bad.

    But you know what would load even faster and look decent across most form factors? Plain semantically correct HTML with minimal CSS and no JavaScript. For some reason that solution doesn’t seem to occur to Google’s engineers /s

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      They ruin everything they touch. By now the OP’s name and particulars have been fed into every laptop, desktop, mainframe and supermarket scanner that collectively makes up the global information conspiracy. Otherwise known as, “The Beast.”

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        Just found out google will mess with you and demand a captcha if you’re on a VPN in certain locations. They’re absolutely trying to ruin every single aspect of the internet they can.

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      AMP on its own and Google’s AMP service are two different things. AMP sites in general are better for mobile browsing. One should avoid Google’s AMP service, though.

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    I know we’re on No Stupid Questions but I feel like this is a stupid question. What’s wrong with AMP?

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      Different people will have different answers, but one of the most common thing I have heard is that it’s basically another way that a big tech company was trying to control the internet.

      Google started to basically require websites use AMP in order to appear in search results. This is a conflict because AMP doesn’t support all advertisements, but it does support all ads by Google. This matters on mobile because people are less-likely to have adblock. So they weren’t telling websites “if you don’t use our ads, you won’t show up in search results”, but they were implying “if you would like to continue to make a living you will use our ads and services.”

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        Is this why I have never noticed a difference between amp sites and non amp sites? I use adblocker on everything.

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      Accelerated Mobile Pages. Basically a sort of fast-load version of your actual page for mobile use. Something Google came up with to enhance mobile search? It never really got off imo…

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    If you’re an Android, Kiwi Browser has an option to remove AMP (use direct website over AMP version)